Alexander Ross, The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabick into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the French king, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. (1649)

Officers (who were slain in demanding it) of their lives. After this act, the whole Province, with that of Egypt, revolted, and the people generally esteeming the success of Mahomets armes (which he was diligent to employ) as a sure testimony of the goodness of his Cause, embraced his Religion.

Heraclious having neglected to strangle this rebellion in its birth, endeavoured to extinguish it, being now growne to considerable strength; and to that end sent an Army under the conduct of Theodosius his Favorite; his Army was twice overthrown, the Generall slain, and the Mahometans pursuing their victories, took from the Greeks, the Countries of Egypt, Syria, and other Provinces of Affrica, where Mahomet encreased his Triumphs and Trophies.

Being now grown impotent, rather through his inordinate life, then burthen of years, he retired full of glory, as a King and Prophet, to Mecca, where he resolved to end his dayes, having affirmed it in the Alcoran to be the most holy City of the world: as that wherein stood the Temple of Abraham, built miraculously by Angles, to be Sanctuary of all that repair thither in Pilgrimage. And therefore it was, that when he had by his Armies taken the City of Antioch, he surat not enter into it in person, left by the delightfull and fertile scituation of it, he should have been enticed to defert Mecca, and contradict his own Prophecie. His life now drawing to a period, a Plurisie surprised him; On the seventh day, for Crisis of his disease, he became frantique. Haly, one of his successors, astonished at his distemper and frenzie, not esteeming it one of the rare qualities of a Prophet, and Redeemer (as he stilted himself)